Civil Rights Movement

By Elycia_Morin

  • Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (Brown v. Board)

    • The group they were involved was Oliver and 13 other parents.
    • Declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. Helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not equal at all.
    • the ruling fueled the nascent civil rights movement in the United States.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    • The group that they were involved in was blacks.
    • Protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery to protest segregated seating.
    • U.S supreme court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

  • Little Rock Nine

    -The group that was involved was nine African Americans.
    -They were trying to prevent African Americans from enrolling into Central High. That school was only for whites.
    -Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis. The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus.

  • Sit-Ins

    • The group that was involved was four young black people.
    • The four black guys went to go eat lunch and then the lunch counter staff refused to serve them and the white customers were harassing them.
    • The impact sit-ins had on the civil rights movement proved to be invaluable to changing policies and norms in the 1960s.

  • Birmingham Demonstrations

    -The group that they were in was Martin Luther King Jr., President Kennedy, and the Civil Right leaders.
    - The effect of this act was to focus on tevelison, newspapers, and to focus on the street of birmingham. They, the civil rights leaders, used powerhouse hoses to wash small children from the streets.
    -There were a lot of bombing within May and September killing your young African American girls.

  • March on Washington

    • The group they were involved with was labor leaders, clergy, liberals, and grassroots works.
    • Thousands of demonstrators from all over the country were transported by buses and trains. It was the largest crowd to ever attend a civil rights demonstrations .
    • The March was successful in pressuring the administration of John F. Kennedy to initiate a strong federal civil right bill in Congress.

  • Freedom Riders

    • The group that they were involved in was the interracial group.
    • Seven blacks and six whites let Washington D.C on two public buses bound for the deep south which was test the supreme court's ruling in Boynton V. Virginia that declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations.
    • The attorney general petitioned the interstate commerce commission to issue a ruling against segregation to interstate facilities.
    • Got 10 ride bus without segregation.